ShiftDown reduces the load of processes on Windows to speed things up

guest · Dec 20, 2021

December 20, 2021

ShiftDown is an open source program for Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows 11. The program reduces the load of taxing processes on the devices it is run on to reduce issues associated with high load processes.

ShiftDown starts to evaluate processes once the system load is at least at 25%. Processes with high CPU usages have their priority changed to IDLE in that case to reduce the load on the system. The developer notes that this should not reduce the performance of the system, but improve it in situations with load.
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Against the expectation, the program does not reduce the computer's performance, but tries to improve that all programs get enough CPU time.

Installation of ShiftDown is slightly complicated. The application needs to be installed as a service on the Windows device, and this needs to happen manually.
Note: Shiftdown requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.
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Closing Words
ShiftDown is a specialized program that Windows users may want to give a try if they experience slowdowns under load just like the developer of the application has. It is open source, which means that you may check the source code and compile yourself as well.
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ShiftDown
Website (GitHub)
Download: https://github.com/seanox/virtual-environment/raw/main/platform/Resources/platform/Settings/shiftdown.exe

My computer with i5 3rd generation (i5 3320M) suffers from the updates from Intel and Windows since Meltdown and Spectre were fixed. When the CPU is loaded, various IO interfaces have problems, e.g. access to USB devices and sound stutters.

What helps is to reduce the priority of the processes that generate the load.
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Usage
The program is installed as a service, which requires administration privileges.
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Code:
sc.exe create ShiftDown binpath="...\shiftdown.exe" start=auto
sc.exe start ShiftDown

sc.exe pause ShiftDown
sc.exe continue ShiftDown

sc.exe stop ShiftDown
sc.exe delete ShiftDown
The service supports start, pause, continue and stop.
When the program ends, the priority of the changed processes will be restored.
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